We were there, you know, her seven-year-old daughter had said, pointing to a print of the Crucifixion, before we came down the last time... As she stands in Chartres Cathedral, a twenty-year-old memory erupts out of Elizabeth Layton's unconscious min...
Meekelorr, lying near a stream in the Easternlands with a small troop of his soldiers sleeping nearby, woke suddenly from a strange dream. He sat up, pushing away both the blankets and the grogginess. He wanted to think about the dream, to fix it in ...
Sword in hand, crouching, Auragole waited. He was still weak, had not recovered his strength after the boat wreck and the fever that had followed it. Though it was morning and the mountain air still cool, sweat trickled down his nose. He heard the me...
Auragole seemed to have one overriding emotion, Lorenwile observed as they walked down street after street in Mattelmead City. It was amazement. He was perpetually startled by what his eyes were taking in and what his ears were hearing. He often look...
Lorenwile stopped mid-song. The sudden cessation of sound was so jarring that for a moment Auragole couldn't remember where he was. A rush of mindless images tumbled across his inner eye and brought him to total wakefulness, leaving him dizzy and uns...
Auragole of Mattelmead is the third novel in the quartet, "Auragole's Journey."
Download the prologue to book three: Auragole of Mattelmead (PDF).
Aurogole s Journey:
Unable to reconcile herself to the deaths of her husband and her eldest daughter, poet Elizabeth Layton is teetering on the edge of an emotional abyss. To keep her from excessive mourning, her sister and brother pressure Elizabeth into going on a mus...
Meekelorr dreamed of his father for the first time since starting his school years. He had put those dreams and his father’s request behind a locked door years ago.
And now here was Edorr, ephemeral and mournful, once again asking Meekelorr to f...